Wednesday Reads

 Good information for me to know since I am over 60 and hope to get the third COVID shot which is the booster shot.

Over-60s given a booster Covid jab are 20 times less likely to fall severely ill with Covid than those vaccinated with two doses, a major Israeli study has found.

A third dose was also found to slash the risk of becoming infected with the virus tenfold, in the firmest piece of evidence yet that the UK was right to go ahead with a mass booster programme.

The research, led by the country's health ministry, looked at more than 1.1million Israelis who had been double-jabbed for at least five months. 

It found that people given a booster jab were 19.5 times less likely to be hospitalised with Covid than those who were still relying on protection from two doses and 11.3 less likely to test positive for the virus.

Both findings apply to the Pfizer vaccine, which Israel has relied on solely for its coronavirus immunisation programmes.

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The fate of Robert Durst, who has gotten away with murder in the past, is now in the hands of the jury in the Susan Berman case.

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